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sweetos
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Post by sweetos »

i love jeffrey eugenides' (virgin suicide & middlesex) style of writing. he's my favorite. and also stephen chbosky (perks of being a wallflower) but he's only written 1 book. i think.
Jaschenka
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Post by Jaschenka »

Michael Crichton. Read most of his books.
I like that they are all so different. But they are all pageturners!
RedAlligator
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Post by RedAlligator »

My favourite authors are:

Ian McEwan - I just love how dark he can make his books and they are so beautifully written.
Kazuo Ishiguro - He makes a book that is fairly odd i.e. The Unconsoled very readable.
Ann Patchett - She just tells a great story
Kate Atkinson - Again, she tells a great story and love her humour.

Also really like Amy Tan, David Lodge, Iain Banks, Nick Hornby and Michael Faber
MsBookworm
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Post by MsBookworm »

Jane Austen
Rita Mae Brown
Dan Brown
Jean Sasson
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
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Spoons
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Post by Spoons »

Erm so far my top authors are
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Haruki Murakami
- Peter Robinson
-Shakespeare
LDRose
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Post by LDRose »

Well my favorite authors (sorry I can't choose just one) are:

J.K. Rowling: She is a genius I love the Harry Potter books :D I can talk all day about her books :D but I will stop here.

Phillipa Gregory: She is awesome I love her. She has written a lot of books about my favorite era, Tudor England :D and not to mention one of her books was turned into a movie.

Carolyn Meyer: She was the author that introduced me to Tudor England.

Kit Pearson: First of all, she is Canadian :D and she was the author to introduce me to WWII Fiction :D

Gordon Korman: I love his small books, they are perfect for those days where you want to read, but one that you can read quickly.

Last but not least: Joseph Delaney: The author of the Last Apprentice series (but it's a trilogy at the moment)
loicbarcelona
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Post by loicbarcelona »

Definitely Stephen King!
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Eric
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Post by Eric »

Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Slavoj Zizek!
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. -- Michel Foucault
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rollingpin
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Post by rollingpin »

I looove Barbara Kingsolver. Her books are masterpieces of setting and descriptive language complete with little nuggets of wisdom. Her characters also always satisfy. They're complete, real, and seem to pop out of the page. Sometimes while reading her books (most popular being the Poisonwood Bible), I truly feel transported to another place.
perksofbeingme
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Post by perksofbeingme »

perksofbeingme wrote:Jodi piccoult
Chuck Palhniuk
Stephanie meyer
J.K Rowling

Although, my favorite book isn't by any of these people. Go figure.
I just wanted to add a new favorite, Kurt Vonnegut :-)
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
Taneha
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Post by Taneha »

Jacqueline Carey - the kushiel series

She can quicken my heart and slow my breathing.
I love the action, the politics,the heat and the idea of the religion.
I don't think there was anything I didn't like.
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Literally Addicted
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Post by Literally Addicted »

Honestly I'm not too sure because I haven't read that many books since my book craze didn't start until just a while ago. But so far I do like Cecelia Ahern and Meg Cabot.
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hllyfuzz
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Post by hllyfuzz »

When I first started reading I fell in love with Jane Green. Then that moved to Jennifer Weiner. I was all into the "chick Lit". Then I started reading mysteries and fell in love with those. Some of my fav's with that is mary higgins, lisa jackson, james patterson. but my "new" favorite author is Jodi Picoult, LOVE HER
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LSWANTAYLOR
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Post by LSWANTAYLOR »

Any well written suspense thriller or Horror

But my absolute must haves are anything written by

James Patterson (not his love stories I will pass on them)
Dean Koontz
Dan Brown
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Sheila
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Favorite Book: Gone With The Wind
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Post by Sheila »

Sir Author Conan Doyle
Andrew Greeley
Margaret Mitchell
Stephen King
Anne Rice
John Grisham
Bram Stroker
Mary Shelly
Thomas Wolfe
Victor Hugo
Hemmingway
Tolkein
C.S. Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Shakespeare
Frances Hodgson Burnett
J.K. Rowling
Jane Austen
Dickens
Richard Paul Evans
V.C. Andrews
Nicholas Sparks

Wow that's a lot sorry, I will stop there I could go on forever.
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